From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 01:10:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA06051 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 01:10:27 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA06038 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 01:10:16 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA13125 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:38:15 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510270808.RAA13125@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: boot disk.... To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:38:15 +0930 (CST) In-Reply-To: <199510270641.XAA01050@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 26, 95 11:41:37 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 715 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > major/minor numbers etc. will GO AWAY over the new year > The only valid way of specifying a device will be BY NAME > this goes for ALL instances EVERYWHERE. > Internal to the kernel or External to it. Yes! Yaya! Can I say "kernel environment variables"? This is a Good Thing 8) > julian -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[